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About Us

The Science & Technology Action Committee is a group of 25 non-profit, academic, foundation, and corporate leaders working to dramatically strengthen U.S. science and technology.

Co-Chairs

Bill Noveolli Headshot

Bill Novelli

  • Professor Emeritus and founder of Business for Impact at Georgetown University and
  • former CEO of AARP
  • Sudip Parikh Headshot

    Sudip Parikh, Ph.D.

  • CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of Science Family of Journals
  • Mary Wolley Headshot

    Mary Woolley

  • President and CEO, Research!America
  • Keith Yamamoto Headshot

    Keith Yamamoto, Ph.D.

  • Vice Chancellor of Science Policy and Strategy at UCSF and
  • Past President of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Members

    Georges Benjamin

    Georges C. Benjamin, M.D.

    Executive Director, American Public Health Association
    Bob Conn

    Bob Conn, Ph.D.

    Distinguished Policy Fellow, School of Public Policy and Strategy, University of California, San Diego

    Michael M. Crow

    President, Arizona State University
    Charlie Dent

    The Honorable Charlie Dent

    Former Republican Representative from Pennsylvania

    Victor Dzau, M.D.

    President, National Academy of Medicine

    Arthur C. Evans, JR., Ph.D.

    CEO, American Psychological Association
    Harvey Fineberg

    Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D.

    President, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation
    Dario Gil

    Dario Gil, Ph.D.

    IBM Senior Vice President and Director of Research
    Bart Gordon

    The Honorable Bart Gordon

    Partner, K&L Gates LLP and former representative from Tennessee, 1985-2011
    Margaret Hamburg

    Margaret “Peggy” Hamburg, M.D.

    President of InterAcademy Partnership and former FDA Commissioner

    John J. Hamre, Ph.D.

    President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies

    India Hook-Barnard, Ph.D.

    Executive Director, Engineering Biology Research Consortium
    Kristina Johnson

    Kristina M. Johnson, Ph.D.

    Founder and CEO of KMJ and Associates, and former President of the Ohio State University and former Under Secretary, US Department of Energy

    Tom Kalil

    CEO, Renaissance Philanthropy
    Neal Lane

    Neal Lane, Ph.D.

    Senior Fellow in Science and Technology Policy, Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and former Director, National Science Foundation
    Alan Leshner

    Alan Leshner, Ph.D.

    CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
    Marcia McNutt

    Marcia McNutt, Ph.D.

    President, the National Academy of Sciences
    Erin O'Shea

    Erin K. O’Shea, Ph.D.

    President, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Euan Robertson

    Chief Operating Officer, Simons Foundation
    Rafael Reif

    Rafael Reif, Ph.D.

    President Emeritus, Ray and Maria Stata Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Elias Zerhouni

    Elias Zerhouni, M.D.

    Professor Emeritus Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University and former Director, National Institutes of Health, 2002-2008

    Funders

    We wish to express our thanks to the many organizations and individuals who provide funding for the Science & Technology Action Committee. Your contributions and support are very much appreciated.

    Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

    Kavli Foundation

    The Johns Hopkins University

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    IBM Corporation

    Lyda Hill Philanthropies

    Breakthrough Energy Action

    Sergey Brin Family Foundation

    Schmidt Futures

    Kristina M. Johnson, PH.D

    Simons Foundation International (SFI)

    Staff

    Sheila Murphy

    Vice President, Advocacy Programs and Initiatives, Research!America

    Shilpa Rajan

    Director, Science and Technology Action Committee, Research!America

    Endorsers

    Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research

    Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Initiative

    American Anthropological Association

    American Association of Physics Teachers

    American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

    American Association for the Advancement of Science

    American Educational Research Association

    American Heart Association

    American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering

    American Institute of Biological Sciences

    American Mathematical Society

    American Physiological Society

    American Psychological Association

    American Public Health Association

    American Society for Virology

    American Society of Human Genetics

    American Society of Plant Biologists

    American Sociological Association

    Amgen

    Arizona State University

    Association for Psychological Science

    Association for Women in Science

    Association of American Universities

    Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities

    Association of Science and Technology Centers

    City of Milpitas

    Coalition for Life Sciences

    Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Consortium for Ocean Leadership

    Consortium of Social Science Associations

    Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics

    Council of Scientific Society Presidents

    Council on Competitiveness

    County of Santa Clara

    Covington & Burling LLP

    Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation

    Entomological Society of America

    Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology

    Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Global Council for Science and the Environment

    Global Healthy Living Foundation

    Google, Inc.

    Helminthological Society of Washington

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    IBM

    Indiana University

    Institute for Systems Biology

    Johns Hopkins University

    Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

    Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology

    Lasker Foundation

    Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

    Lupus and Allied Diseases Association, Inc.

    Mary Ann Liebert Inc.

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    National Academy of Medicine

    National Association for Biomedical Research

    National Multiple Sclerosis Society

    National Science Policy Network

    Natural Science Collections Alliance

    New York Academy of Medicine

    Patrick Risha CTE Awareness Foundation

    PBM Foundation

    Population Association of America

    Research!America

    Rice University

    Rosalind Franklin Society

    Royal Caribbean International

    ScienceCounts

    Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

    Solve ME/CFS Initiative

    Stanford University

    Texas A&M University

    Texas A&M University Kingsville

    The Helminthological Society of Washington

    The Ohio State University

    United States Pharmacopeia

    University of California San Francisco

    University of California System

    University of Oklahoma

    University of Oregon

    University of Wah

    VHL Alliance

    Weill Cornell Medicine

    Wells Fargo & Co.

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

    The Science & Technology Action Committee (STAC) is a group of 25 non-profit, academic, foundation, and corporate leaders working to dramatically strengthen U.S. science and technology. The Committee is co-chaired by: Bill Novelli, Professor Emeritus and founder of Business for Impact at Georgetown University and former CEO of AARP, Sudip Parikh, CEO, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Executive Publisher of the Science Family of Journals, Mary Woolley, President & CEO of Research!America, and Keith Yamamoto, Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy at UCSF and Immediate Past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).